http://freebeacon.com/national-security/china-successfully-tests-hypersonic-missile/
China Successfully Tests Hypersonic Missile
Seventh test of new DF-ZF glider tracked over northern China
>China successfully flight tested its new high-speed maneuvering warhead last week, days after Russia carried out its own hypersonic glider test, according to Pentagon officials.
>The test of the developmental DF-ZF hypersonic glide vehicle was monitored after launch Friday atop a ballistic missile fired from the Wuzhai missile launch center in central China, said officials familiar with reports of the test.
>The maneuvering glider, traveling at several thousand miles per hour, was tracked by satellites as it flew west along the edge of the atmosphere to an impact area in the western part of the country.
>It was the seventh successful flight test of the revolutionary glider, which travels at speeds between 4,000 and 7,000 miles per hour.
>U.S. intelligence officials have assessed that China plans to use the glider to deliver nuclear weapons through increasingly sophisticated missile defenses. The DF-ZF also could be used as part of a conventional strategic strike weapon capable of hitting targets around the world within an hour.
>Earlier DF-ZF tests were carried out Nov. 23, Aug. 19, June 7, and on Jan. 9, 2014, Aug. 7, 2014, and Dec. 2, 2014. During at least one test, the maneuvering glider conducted what a defense official said were “extreme maneuvers” at speeds between Mach 5 and Mach 10.
>>29755882
>doing Project Pluto all over again.
Wew Zhang. How about that clean drinking water?
>>29755906
>says the one with this sort of water
>>29755882
What is the point?
Can't we already obliterate each other, wasn't that the whole point of trying to end the cold war?
Did they forget? We can not still kill like... everyone?
Good article
http://www.jamestown.org/single/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=45313&no_cache=1#.VyDTgPmLSUm
But why is Russia still using liquid fuel rockets? I hope for them it is just for tests and not operational purpose... That's so vintage.
>>29756019
>U.S. Hypersonic Glide Vehicle Developments
>To understand China’s progress toward an operational HGV, an examination of the U.S. military’s hypersonic projects is important. The United States has been researching and developing hypersonic technology since the early 2000s under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Force Application and Launch from Continental United States (FALCON) Project. Since then, the U.S. Air Force, DARPA, Boeing, and many others have collaborated on the X-51A Waverider HGV. The Waverider uses a B-52 bomber as a launch platform, is intended to be capable of Mach 5+ speeds, and is equipped with a scramjet engine that uses high speed to pressurize the air-to-fuel mixture, allowing more efficient combustion and greater speeds. The first Waverider test took place on May 26, 2010, and set a record with a 200-second burn, beating out the 12-second burn of NASA’s X-43 in 2004 (Edwards Air Force Base News, May 26, 2010). In contrast, Chinese media reports that its military has the capability to launch its HGV from a variety of types of ballistic missile models. Among these are the DF-11B, DF-15B, DF-15C, DF-16, DF-21C, DF-21D, DF-26 (rumored), and the M-20/DF-12 (Sina Military, June 18, 2015). When comparing HGV technology, the U.S.’s delivery method and intended range appear to be more ambitious. However, the U.S. program has had a much lower test launch success rate (25 percent), compared to China’s 83 percent. Despite its recent advances with its HGV program, the United States has not conducted a Waverider test in the past two years, which makes the Chinese program appear more advanced. (See Table 2)
>>29756019
>that graph
>no HTV
>>29756043
Because the HTV is a national embarrassment with its two failures out of two, making it a 100% failure.
It is basically the LCS of the HGV world.
>>29756038
>the United States has not conducted a Waverider test in the past two years, which makes the Chinese program appear more advanced.
Bullshit. The HTV tests show the US is far more willing to push the envelope. The US has had manned hypersonic vehicles. They dont want to go mach 5, or mach 6, they want to go mach 20.
>>29756051
No, its not. It was a testbed meant to push the envelope. It "failed" far into its flight. It was mach 20 for 9 mins. They got their data, and darpa went dark with it.
Going mach 5-10 proves and accomplishes nothing for the US.
>>29756061
any source on that?
>>29756076
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypersonic_Technology_Vehicle_2
>>29756061
You can push the envelope on paper. But when your rival conducts seven tests in two and a half years, while you did nothing of that sort, the one who gets more data is your rival and not you.
Hence, China is more advanced.
USAF agreed
http://www.airforcemag.com/DRArchive/Pages/2016/March%202016/March%2011%202016/Who%E2%80%99s-Ahead-in-Hypersonics.aspx
>Who’s Ahead in Hypersonics?
>China is “way ahead” in hypersonics, Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work said Wednesday night. Speaking at an AFA Mitchell Institute event in Washington, D.C., Work said hypersonics technology is “part and parcel” of his “third offset” strategy to recapture a wide lead over adversaries, but competitors are pouring resources into the field as well. “The Chinese are way ahead in terms of hypersonics. The Russians are behind them, and I would say, we’re somewhere in between,” Work assessed. China’s “got hundreds of hypersonic wind tunnels,” he said, wondering “how do they pay for the overhead? But they are pursuing it in a big, big way.”
>>29756038
>China and its Goals for the DF-ZF
>China has conducted six DF-ZF tests in the past year and a half. Although frequency does not determine test quality, it does demonstrate that China is dedicated to the successful development of this technology. Its 10th Research Institute (also known as the “Near Space Flight Vehicle Research Institute”), which is under the China Aerospace Science Industry Corporation (CASIC) 1st Academy, is the sole entity responsible for the development of HGVs. [2] This unique concentration of the entirety of the program into the 10th Research Institute seems to have facilitated a remarkably quick development of China’s DF-ZF. Unlike the United States, China is assumed to be using a medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) transporter erector launcher (TEL) as the delivery method for all of its HGV tests. This design launches the boost-glide vehicle into the atmosphere along a trajectory similar to a traditional ballistic missile. After the vehicle reenters the earth’s atmosphere, it boosts itself back into the upper atmosphere. It then performs a pull up maneuver to control speed and altitude before gliding into its target (Next Big Future, August 1, 2015). The up-and-down trajectory of the HGV is believed to be able to confuse current ballistic missile defense (BMD) systems as the projectile’s erratic course prevents the system from locking onto its target. Countries in East Asia with BMD available to intercept a Chinese HGV include Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, each with U.S.-supplied PATRIOT-3 (PAC-3) batteries, along with India, Pakistan and Russia, each of whom has its own indigenous BMD, as well as BMD purchased from other countries. The DF-ZF’s unpredictable flight path and ability to be launched from a variety of missiles, each with different range capabilities, shows that China’s goals for its HGV is to evade ballistic missile defense systems that threaten its ability to launch a successful offensive or defensive strike.
>>29756097
>But when your rival conducts seven tests in two and a half years, while you did nothing of that sort, the one who gets more data is your rival and not you.
China is going less than half the speed.
The US has gone hypersonic, manned no less, since 1959.
It gains nothing in this speed bracket.
>>Please gib more "monies", Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work said Wednesday night.
Fixed for you.
>>29756051
>LCS of the HGV world.
KEK
>>29756097 Translated: "Give us more money".
>>29756133
There is so much wrong with this...i just cant even.
>>29756130
The US did go Hypersonic, but they never go hypersonic and pulling extreme maneuvers.
China did both several times. The US HVT and others only go straight lines. And still fail.
>>29756145
>but they never go hypersonic and pulling extreme maneuvers.
They very much have with their pershing II, almost identical to OPs pic.
>>29756160
Pershing II is only like the DF-21D, a maneuverable ballistic missile warhead.
But the HVT and DF-ZF are both Hypersonic Gliders, atmosphere skipping and all that.
>>29756175
You said the US has never gone hypersonic and pulling extreme manuvers. Thats false.
Here is a minuteman test.
Nuclear powers can't use ballistic missiles, except in advertised tests. China trying to use one in a conventional first strike.especially. would just get their asses plastered in nuclear missiles before they could even fuel up their nukes.
>>29756193
China uses the DF-ZF on their DF-21s IRBMs. They give a different radar return than a nuclear capable ICBM and hence will not trigger nuclear war. DF-ZF is also subject to the conventional strike brigades of the Rocket Forces. It is a tactical weapon.
Maybe you should read that article?
>>29756192
AMARV arent gliders like the HVT/DF-ZF. They are decidedly flying in low earth orbit.
>>29756225
AMARV are decidedly in atmosphere when performing manuvers. The manuvers were last minute terminal course corrections. See those lights in the bottom left? Thats bikini atoll.
>>29756019
Wonderful article indeed. Just look at all the sources. If only there were more examples of such quality journalism.
>>29756236
And hence it is not a glider that performs such maneuvers during mid-course cruise - basically when the ballistic missile is most vulnerable when it's MARV/MIRV still havent been seperated from the bus and it is merely flying a predictable path.
The HGVs are BMD penetrators because they perform maneuvers all the way, not just in terminal stage. Hence, the SM-3, which is a mid-course interceptor, wont be able to hit it.
>>29756237
>Jamestown Foundation
>Journalism
wat.
U S A
B T F O
>>29756111
>>29756097
CHINA STRONK@!!!!!
USA should just surrender now and save itself the trouble. If white man lucky then yellow man will just castrate all USA males and take all females to be stronk yellow man wives instead of just wiping out USA species from planet. HAHAHA you lose USA white man!!!
>>29756254
Again, that was not the claim.
Furthermore, if you want to get into the weeds, the SM-3 IIA is flight testing as we speak, and will be deployed in a year or two. It has a high divert capability to deal with threats such as these, IIB is on track as the next gen aegis interceptor (2020~). Furthermore, for terminal there is SM-6. Being that its unpowered, the glider will significantly slow as it enters the lower atmosphere.
The WU-14 is a testbed, currently. It will be many years (if ever) before it gets turned into a weapon with payload, targeting, comms, etc.
Meanwhile, the US has assets comeing into play very soon as a counter.
